Safety-pocket.



PATENTEDJULY 14, 1903..

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THOMAS C. LOUDEN, OF RIVERSIDE, CONNECTICUT.

SAFETY-POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,666, dated July 14,1903. Application filed December 5, 1902, $erial No. 134,036. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. LOUDEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Riverside, county of Fairtield, State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new and useful Safety- Pocket, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention has for its object to provide safety-pockets for garmentsgenerally, my novel pocket being equally adapted for mens and womensclothing and for pocketsin coats, vests, trousers, jackets, or dresses.In the present instance I have illustrated the invention as applied totrousers-pockets.

It is of course well understood that pockets are ordinarily made ofstrong heavy cloth, usually twilled, but that when miscellaneousarticlessuch as pocket-knives, bunches of keys, &c.are carried or whenthe pocket is used as a coin-pocket and subjected to the constant weightand wearing action of various-sized coins and of the finger-nails intaking articles out the pockets wear through in time and notinfrequently serious loss results. It is for the purpose of preventingloss of coins or other articles from the pocket that I have devised thenovel safety-pocket, which I will now describe, referring to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and usingreference characters to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is a View illustrating the applica tion of the principle of theinvention to a trousers-pocket, the front of the trousers-leg beingbroken away to show the pocket; and Fig. 2 is a similar view differingonly in details of construction, which I will presently describe atlength.

The essential principle of the invention is that I provide the lower endof the pocket with double bottoms and sides, leaving a space between thetwo bottoms large enough to receive and retain articles that may escapethrough a hole in the inner bottom. As the wear upon a pocket is by nomeans confined to the actual bottom of the pocket, which is usually ascam, I shall for convenience refer to the entire carrying portion ofthe pocket as the bottom.

10 denotes a pocket having a bottom 11, and 12 a supplemental bottomoutside of and below the bottom of the pocket proper, be-

tween which and the bottom of the pocket is a space 13. In both of theviews the supplemental bottom is partly broken away to show passentirely out of the pocket proper, but

still retains them securely in the supplemental bottom. This space alsoserves to prevent the weight of the contents of the in ner or pocketproper, which is of the usual cloth material employed for pockets, fromcausing the bottom of said pocket to chafe and wear the bottom of thesupplemental or outer pocket, which is also of the usual cloth material.After having worn out the bottom of the pocket proper the user can ofcourse depend upon the supplemental bottom for the safety of articlescarried; but by providing the space between the bottom of the pocketproper and the supplemental bottom attention is called to the hole inthe bottom of the pocket proper by the very inconvenience of having toextract articles from the supplemental bottom by passing them throughthe hole in the bottom of the pocket proper. will repair the hole in thebottom of the pocket proper, as he will be constantly reminded of itsexistence, but without danger fora long time of the actual loss ofarticles.

On the other hand, should it be inconvenient 90 or impossible to mend orpatch the hole in the bottom of the pocket proper the user may continueto use the pocket, depending entirely upon the supplemental bottom, and

will have quite as long use with safety of the 5 supplemental bottom ashe originally had of the bottom of the pocket proper.

So far as the principle of the invention is concerned it is whollyunimportant whether the bottom 11 0f the pocket proper is simply we thebottom of an original pocket and the supplemental bottom is formed byplacing a new bottom in the form of a bag outside the lower end of thepocket, as in Fig. 1, and securing I consider 60 Under ordinaryconditions the user the outer or supplemental bottom to the pocketproper by means of a seam 17 or whether, as in Fig. 2, the lower end ofan ordinary pocket is made to serve as the supplemental bottom 12 andthe bottom 11 of the pocket proper is formed by stitching within theoriginal pocket a short pocket which when stitched in place forms thebottom 11 of the pocket proper, the supplemental bottom in this formbeing, as already stated, the bottom of the original pocket. Care shouldbe taken in both forms of the invention to leave the space 13 betweenthe bottom of the pocket proper andthe supplemental bottom.

In Fig. 2 I have indicated the seam by which the bottom proper of thepocket is secured above the bottom of the original pocket,

THOMAS C. LOUDEN.

Witnesses:

CHARLES C). DERBY, FRANK D. WEBSTER.

